Jerry Garcia Quotes

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• Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you've been to some of those places, you think, 'How can I get back there again but…
• To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become…
• Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
• We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just…
• You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what…
• You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic, and bliss, and…
• What's been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
• Either you were a hoodlum, or you were a puddle on the sidewalk.
• Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else.
• It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of…
• What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you're not getting the whole thing that's…
• And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
• See, there's only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all…
• Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
• It's much too late to do anything about rock & roll now ...
• ... We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us - certainly more satisfying, because it doesn't restrict us to…
• ... Grateful Dead - that's it !! ... nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn't like it, either, but it got around…
• It's a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things. If you want to separate the two, the thing you do…
• What we're thinking about is a peaceful planet. We're not thinking about anything else. We're not thinking about any kind of power. We're not thinking…
• You ain't gonna learn what you don't wanna know.

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